Quicksilver: The Boy With No Skid to His Wheel

George Manville Fenn

"There'll be such a game directly.

George Manville Fenn

"Well, boys, where have you been?"

George Manville Fenn

Two rooks flew over the Cathedral Close, and as they neared the old square Norman tower they cawed in a sneering way.

George Manville Fenn

WHY I WENT TO MY UNCLE'S. "I don't know what to do with him.

Jane Austen

Chapter 1 It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Letter 1 St. Petersburgh, Dec. 11th, 17-- TO Mrs. Saville, England You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such ...

Herman Melville

Original Transcriber's Notes: This text is a combination of etexts, one from the now-defunct ERIS project at Virginia Tech and one from Project Gutenberg's archives.

Charles Dickens

Book the First--Recalled to Life I. The Period It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was...